We recently attended our first meet & greet with the Seattle Chef’s Collaborative. We were bit apprehensive and really didn’t know what to expect. This particular meet & greet was held at the FareStart Restaurant and the theme was about distributing extra food resources from the food service industry to the needy and homeless. While [...]
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As a sheep ranch we are constantly aware and adjusting the grazing patterns of our flocks. Free grazing on large bodies of land seem to be a good idea at first. One would think that a relatively small flock set out on a large parcel of land would have a minimal impact on the plants [...]
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After the initial application process is completed – basically it is simply your intent to enter the program. Then the next step is to determine which program would work best for your particular situation and to evaluate the scope of work. This process involves an on site visit from one of the NRCS personnel. Our plans [...]
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I was recently invited to go picking service berries with some friends. Not wanting to show my ignorance and always pleased to learn some wild craft I readily agreed. It was a lovely day and I was able to get plenty of information regarding the storing and preserving of the little berry from the other [...]
Filed under: Cooking, farm, food, lamb, life style, Okanogan, sustainable, Washington | Tagged: huckleberry, lamb, recipe, saskatoon, wild craft | 2 Comments »
Some of our solstice guest have arrived and the tents are scattered across the lawn like the mushrooms that grow wild there. I figured everyone would want to find a private little space for themselves, but instead they are huddled together like frightened sheep. To be honest our graded lawn is one of the few [...]
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With all the talk about carbon foot print and green living, everyone seems to be so absorbed with living PC that the purpose is forgotten. I know people who buy everything local and organic that they can. I didn’t realize that so many things are available in ‘organic’. These same people live such consumer lifestyles [...]
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